Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1911 — Consumption Spreads In Syria. [ARTICLE]

Consumption Spreads In Syria.

Consumptives in Syria are treated today much In the same war as the lepers have been for the last 2,000 years. Tuberculosis is a comparatively recent disease among the Arabs and Syrians, but so rapidly has it spread that the natives are In great fear of it Consequently when a member of a family is known to have the disease, he Is frequently cast out and compelled to die of exposure and want A small hospital for' consumptives has been opened at Beyrout under the direction of Dr. Mary P. Eddy.